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The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 23 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.

“A dreamlike, profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’... Read more

The Duke and I

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry-though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets... Read more

This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

Narrated by: AJ Bridel & Carley Fortune

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different.

Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who... Read more

ADHD is Awesome

By: Penn Holderness & Kim Holderness

Narrated by: Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, Nathan Rosboro...

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the authors.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES SOLD!The engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest, if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the... Read more

The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Jennifer Blom & Rob Dircks

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

"This audiobook, written by two experts in middle-grade fiction, is a perfect family listen."- AudioFile

The New York Times bestselling authors of Bob, Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, introduce young listeners to a little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps.

When a... Read more

A Marvellous Light

By: Freya Marske

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator David Thorpe’s delicious depictions of steamy encounters between Robin and
Edwin are intricately woven throughout this magical realm." -- Booklist, starred review

An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!

An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best... Read more

I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River, which sold more than a million copies and captured readers’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I... Read more

Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White, a queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.

On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his... Read more

Servant of Earth

By: Sarah Hawley

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today Bestseller

In the underground Fae realm, only the strongest and most ruthless have power—but a young human woman forced into a life of servitude is about to change everything.

Kenna Heron is best known in her village for being a little wild—some say half feral—but she’ll need every ounce of that ferocity to survive captivity in the... Read more

A Little Less Broken

By: Marian Schembari

Narrated by: Marian Schembari

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves

Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she’d spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why... Read more

We All Want Impossible Things

By: Catherine Newman

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She’s a writer’s writer—and a human’s human.”—New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center“A riotously funny and fiercely loyal love letter to female... Read more

The Guest

By: Emma Cline

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.
 
“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully... Read more

What the River Knows

By: Isabel Ibañez

Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Ana Osorio

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the... Read more

East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read more

Calypso

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.

If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.

When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent... Read more

The Last Watch

By: J. S. Dewes

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden & Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Both readers are brilliant and nail the characterization in a way that instantly connects them to the listener..Everything here is top-notch." -- Booklist, starred review

The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes's fast-paced, sci-fi adventure The Last Watch, where a handful of soldiers stand between humanity and annihilation.

The... Read more

Know My Name

By: Chanel Miller

Narrated by: Chanel Miller

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap).

"I... Read more

The Book of Delights

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross Gay's The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays- some as short as a paragraph; some as long as... Read more

The Friday Afternoon Club

By: Griffin Dunne

Narrated by: Griffin Dunne

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller! 

“Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times

“Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —Washington Post

"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.”  —Los Angeles Times

“What a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family revealed with loving... Read more

Cue the Sun!

By: Emily Nussbaum

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer—“a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture” (NPR)

“Passionate, exquisitely told . . . With muscular prose and... Read more

Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los... Read more

Scorched Grace

By: Margot Douaihy

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn). When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos.... Read more

House of Glass

By: Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Laura Benanti

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wow, I loved this one so much! I didn’t want it to be over because I was enjoying it so much, but I couldn’t stop turning pages! House of Glass is a gripping thriller that was packed with surprises and compelling characters.” —Freida McFadden

The next thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen, House of Glass.

On... Read more

The Maidens

By: Alex Michaelides

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith & Louise Brealey

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Between the three of them, author Alex Michaelides and narrators Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith cast a spell that will have listeners glued to this suspenseful novel every chance they get." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

"The audiobook is narrated primarily by actor Louise Brealey, who has given life to complex female... Read more